1820 in literature
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See also: 1819 in literature, other events of 1820, 1821 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- Robert Chambers's publishing company publishes The Songs of Robert Burns.
- November 20 - An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America (Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick was in part inspired by this story).
New books
- The Abbot - Sir Walter Scott
- Castle of Nielo - Robert Huish
- The Crusaders - Louisa Stanhope
- Essays of Elia - Charles Lamb
- The Eve of St. Agnes - John Keats
- Forty Years ago - Thomas Gaspey
- The Highland Castle, and the Lowland Cottage - Rosalia St. Clair
- Italian Mysteries - Francis Lathom
- Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
- Lamia and Other Poems - John Keats
- Life of Wesley - Robert Southey
- Melmoth the Wanderer - Charles Robert Maturin
- The Munster Cottage Boy - Regina Marie Roche
- Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery - John Clare
- Prometheus Unbound (poetry) - Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Ruslan and Ludmila - Alexander Pushkin
- The Songs of Robert Burns - Robert Burns
- The Spectre of Lanmere Abbey - Sarah Wilkinson
Births
- January 17 - Anne Brontė, author (+ 1849)
- March 30 - Anna Sewell, author (+ 1878)
- April 26 - Alice Cary, American poet and short-story writer
- November 28 - Friedrich Engels, socialist writer (+ 1895)